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Old Maid
Vivian Nocum Limpin
Philippines, theGALLERYCONVERSATION
I looked around me for some answers:
Perhaps they're written in my poems.
Perhaps they're sketched in my paintings.
Perhaps they're framed in my films.
I tried hard to remember
if this is what I chose:
the camera instead of the casserole,
the canvas instead of the cradle,
the metaphor instead of a mate.

You're still asking me
why I still don't have a partner.
Never in my whole life
did I consider being single
as a curse.
I won't look around for a while
even if you ask one more time.
The answer might still be long in coming.
 
 
 

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